Slug-casting machine.



*Patenma Aug. 31,1915

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APPLICATION FILED JAN 7 1915 E. PRECE.

SLUG CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7.191s.

Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

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ERNEST PRICE OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMN, ASSIGNOR TO MERGEN- THALER LINO'IYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATIQN OF NEW YORK.

SLUG-CASTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEs'r'PRIoE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slug-Casting Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying draw- %dy invention relates to typographical machines, such as linotype machines of the general organization represented in U. S. Letters Patent to O. Mergenthaler No. 436532, wherein circulating matrices are re leased from a magazine in the order in which their characters are to appear in print and then assembled in line, the composed line transferred to the face of a mold, the mold filled with molten metal to form a slug or linotype against the matrices which produce the type characters thereon, and the matrices thereafter returned through a distributing mechanism to the magazine from which they started. As the slugs are successively cast, they are delivered from the mold by an ejector which advances from the rear and moves them before it out of the mold and into a receiving galley, wherein they are assembled side by side in a row or column.

For certain classes of work, the printed matter must be of double column width, that is, of a width twice that of an ordinary column. In many instances, this is taken care of by casting two different slugs bearing complementary portions of the same line, but it has been customary to assemble these slugs in the receiving galley in the regular way, namely, side by side in the 40.

same column. As a result, when the slugs are to be placed in the printing form, the attendant is obliged to reassemble them in the proper order, that is, in two different columns, one containing the slugs for the first portion of the printed lines, and the other, containing the slugs for the complementary portion.

The object of my invention is to avoid this necessity and the attendant objections and delays. To this end, I provide automatic means whereby the complementary slugs may be assembled in the proper order as they are delivered from themold. I accomplish this result, specifically, by dividing the receiving galley into two compartments, and by providing a movable dog at the entrance to the compartments to effect the delivery of the successive slugs, as they are ejected from the mold, first into one compartment and then into the other, the dog being controlled in its action by the slugs themselves.

I have herein shown my invention merely in preferred form and by way of example, and obviously many changes and variations may be made therein without departing from its spirit. I therefore desire it to be understood that I do not limit myself to i any specific form or embodiment, except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a linotype machine having my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a detail of a pivoted dog, partly in section; Fig.3 is a plan View or the re ceiving galley, showing the dog in one of its operative positions; Fig. 4 is a similar view, with the dog in its reverse position; and Fig. 5 shows the complementary slugs in assembled condition.

As usual, the mold A is mounted upon the rotatable disk B, which presents it first in operative relation to the composed line for casting, and subsequently carries it to the position shown in Fig. 1, when the slug is removed from the mold by an ejector blade C, which engages the rear edge of the slug and carries it forwardly between a pair of trimming knives, (only one of which, D, is shown herein) and delivers it to a receiving galley E. As the successive slugs are delivered to the galley, they are advanced progressively therein by the stacking device F carried by the pivoted lever G, which is vibrated periodically by one of the machine parts, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. All of the parts so far described, except as hereinafter pointed out, are or may be of the regular construction.

According to my invention, I-divi de the galley into two compartments, E and E which are separated by a longitudinal rib E and the stacking device F is duphcated to correspond. At the forward end of the rib E I provide a pivoted dog H .havlng three projecting fingers'H H and H respectively. -As shown in Fig. 3,'in the normal position of the dog, its finger H is so located as to arrest a slug I opposite thefirs't compartment E of the galley, while 'its finger H engages a shoulder E formed on the rib E and holds the dog in such position. As the slug is-advanced into its compartment by the stacking device F, it engages the intermediate finger H and turns the dog into the position shown in Fig. 4, the finger H by this action being brought into engagement with the rib E to limit the movement of the dog. In this position of the parts, the stop finger H -is withdrawn from the path of the descending slugs, so that the next succeeding slug I will be allowed to pass thereby into a position opposite itscompartment E as shown in Fig. 4. When this latter slug is advanced into its compartment by the stacking device F, it will engage the finger H of the dog and move the latter back to its original position, wherein the stop-finger H will again be projected-into the ath of the following slug and cause it to be elivered to the compartment E to which it belongs. It will be seen that by these means thecomplementary slugs I and I as they are successively delivered to the galley, will be assembled in two distinct columns end to end, so that when they are taken. from the machine they may be placed immediately in a printing form in the proper manner and as illustrated in Fig. 5.

As previously-stated, I have shown my invention merely in referred form, and it should be understood that other adaptations and modifications are equally comprised within its scope. For instance, the pivoted dog might be operated in some other way than by the slugs themselves, or be entirely dispensed with and mechanism of an equivalent nature be substituted therefor. Such changes and alterations will readily suggest themselves to the skilled mechanic.

I do not claim herein the broad feature of stacking successive slugs in different columns or delivering them to diiferent galleys, as this is the invention of another. Such prior inventor, however, embodied this feature in a machine wherein the successive slugs are produced from one and the same line; whereas, according to my present invention, the feature is embodied in a machine wherein the successive slugs are cast from difi'erent lines. more detailed character will appear from the appended claims.

Other distinctions of a Having thus described my invention, its

construction and mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a slug casting machine, the combination of casting mechanism for producing successive slugs from different composed lines, a galley, means for assembling the slugs in a plurality of columns therein, and

two compartments, and means whereby the successive slugs will be delivered to the sev-' eral compartments alternately.

3. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a galley having a longitudinal rib dividing it into two compartments arranged side by side, and means for delivering the successive slugsfirst to one compartment and then to the other alternately.

4. In a slug casting machine, the combination of a galley having1 two compartments,

and automatic means w ereby the successive slugs will be delivered first to one compartment and then to the other, said means being controlled by the slugs.

5. In a slug casting machine, the combina- 55 tion of a galley having two compartments, a stacking device for advancing the slugs in the galley, and automatic means whereby the successive slugs will be delivered to the several compartments alternately, said means being controlled by the slugs as they are advanced by the stacking device.

6. In a slug casting machine, the combination of .castmg mechanism for producing successive slugs from different composed lines, a galley havin two compartments, a stacking device to advance the slugs in the compartments, a stop arranged in position to arrest the slugs in position to be advanced into one of said compartments, and means whereby said stop is moved alternately to active and inactive position as the successive slugs are delivered to the galley; whereby the successive slugs are stacked first in one compartment and then the other, alternately.

In a slug casting machine, the combination of the galley E, formed with the central ribe E dividing the galley into compartments E and E the stacking device F for advancing the slugs in the a dog H having three fingers I -I H H, the finger H serving in the normal position of the dog to arrest the slugs in posltion to be advanced in the compartment E and the other two fingers H and H adapted to en- 125 gage the rib E to hold the dog in normal or abnormal position and also adapted to be engaged by the slugs as they are advanced into ey, and the the respective compartments, all for the purpose described.

8. In a slug casting machine, the combination of casting mechanism for producing successively slugs containing complementary portions of a single line, a galley having two compartments, and automatic means Whereby the complementary slugs will be delivered first to one compartment and then to the other as they are successively cast.

In testimony whereof, I have afixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST PRICE. Witnesses:

R. H. JOHNSON, ELLA V. CORGORAN. 

